My Man

More than one-third of this musical was silent and that jarred audiences who were expecting to see and hear the great Brice do her stuff. She runs a theatrical costume shop, but her biggest problem is her wild sister, Murphy, who gets involved with Broadway producer de Segurola, then gets tossed aside by him. Meanwhile, Brice is having a fling with Williams, a physical culture demonstrator who works in a store window, whom she saves from the police when he is found sleeping on a park bench. Murphy watches Brice and Williams prepare to get married, then she puts the vamp on the musclebound oaf and steals him away. While Brice, who has gotten to be a big star in a ma...